FFXIV: Do you think Square Enix will put more money and resources into it?

[Floortank]

Honest question. With FFXIV popularity booming as of late, do you think Square Enix will actually put more money into it? Give Yoshi P and team more resources, staff and the like. I would really hope so. Just think of what they could do with more teams, resources and time! Improve Viera and Hrothgar, improve animations (Elezen run anyone?), be able to create more content easier, due to having more people to work on it. Improve textures maybe (HDTexture pack perhaps?).

What do you guys think? Will Square Enix actually do this, or do you think they'll just keep things the way they are? I really do hope they give the FFXIV team more people and resources and the like. They deserve it for all they've done.

Yoshi-P has spoken elaborately on this. The problems facing FFXIV cannot be solved by throwing more money or staff at it. It is highly unlikely that we are going to see XIV content increase in frequency or depth of features, not due to lack of ability or lack of funding, but rather due to lack of time. In order to maintain the steady patch cycle they have devoted themselves to keeping, they can't massively expand the amount of content per patch.

Think about it. Even if they added staff, and committed them entirely to doing some new and unusual piece of "extra" content, that would be more people for Yoshi-P to supervise, more QA time required, more work meetings, more music for Soken to compose, etc. SE has the money to do this, and there are many talented people who could take up these roles at SE's offices, and they have no end of people who would like to work for them.

But they simply do not have the time to cram more into the game than they already do without creating extensive patch delays.

[Gabadabs]

Yoshi-P has spoken elaborately on this. The problems facing FFXIV cannot be solved by throwing more money or staff at it. It is highly unlikely that we are going to see XIV content increase in frequency or depth of features, not due to lack of ability or lack of funding, but rather due to lack of time. In order to maintain the steady patch cycle they have devoted themselves to keeping, they can't massively expand the amount of content per patch.

Think about it. Even if they added staff, and committed them entirely to doing some new and unusual piece of "extra" content, that would be more people for Yoshi-P to supervise, more QA time required, more work meetings, more music for Soken to compose, etc. SE has the money to do this, and there are many talented people who could take up these roles at SE's offices, and they have no end of people who would like to work for them.

But they simply do not have the time to cram more into the game than they already do without creating extensive patch delays.

I keep seeing people that appear to be under the impression that if you just hire more workers, that you can magically add more features to the game.
Especially since we're talking about an MMO, it's way way more complicated than that. Engine upgrades are really complicated, and you need to make sure that whatever you're implementing won't
cause players to lose things that they are earned. There's a lot of content in the game that does need to stay intact for it to continue to work on a fundamental level.
I wish it was as simple as getting a bigger budget and hiring more devs, but it's just not.

[Waliel]

If the money from mogstation/promotional items would be reinvested into the game, we would have a whole different game by now lmao.

Word on the street is Mogstation is the only thing in 14 that is fully invested back in the game and a lot of the sub money is used to fund other projects in Squenix. Mogstation was supposedly a big asset in getting EU servers online after HW launch.

[Larirawiel]

I keep seeing people that appear to be under the impression that if you just hire more workers, that you can magically add more features to the game.

Jepp, it is not really possible. Especially in the software industry. If a software project is delayed adding more developers will delay it further.



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[Nothv13]

An excuse is just that. As pretty as you might put it, is just a excuse.
"The devil doesn't need any more lawyers"


If the servers keep failing and if the service is not properly guaranteed, you just are not doing your work right: As PUBLISHER you must make sure you have the resources to implement and maintain the services you are providing.
If the launch of Endwalkers fails as ARR launch did, this time the "we didn't expected it" excuse won't do, the first time i left it slide because it was a great effort non the less and was a sound argument.

2021 at the fourth expansion, nah my dude, you gotta step it up eventually.

So far we been:

ARR = Bad. (Excused!)
HW = Good. (Relatively low popularity?)
SB = Bad. (Who decided that Raubahn EX was a good idea?)
Shb = Good. (Apparently we learned!)

I hope they truly have learned. We are all watching the sea recede, we know a tsunami is coming. We all know Endwalker will be a massive launch. There is no excuse now.

Actually it is called reality, not an excuse. It is a huge waste of money to purchase servers for temporary. You continue to show little to no understanding of both business and the realities when it comes to both coding and server space, let alone current exponentially higher costs and lead times for acquiring that server space.

[KizuyaKatogami]

Yoshi-P has spoken elaborately on this. The problems facing FFXIV cannot be solved by throwing more money or staff at it. It is highly unlikely that we are going to see XIV content increase in frequency or depth of features, not due to lack of ability or lack of funding, but rather due to lack of time. In order to maintain the steady patch cycle they have devoted themselves to keeping, they can't massively expand the amount of content per patch.

Think about it. Even if they added staff, and committed them entirely to doing some new and unusual piece of "extra" content, that would be more people for Yoshi-P to supervise, more QA time required, more work meetings, more music for Soken to compose, etc. SE has the money to do this, and there are many talented people who could take up these roles at SE's offices, and they have no end of people who would like to work for them.

But they simply do not have the time to cram more into the game than they already do without creating extensive patch delays.

It would be nice though if we could at least get the same amount of content we’ve gotten prior instead of downgrades seen in this expansion.

[Alexandre_Noireau]

Actually it is called reality, not an excuse. It is a huge waste of money to purchase servers for temporary. You continue to show little to no understanding of both business and the realities when it comes to both coding and server space, let alone current exponentially higher costs and lead times for acquiring that server space.

And you continue to show little to no understanding of what a service is.
There is no such thing as a waste of money when it comes to provide a good service for all your customers. A stable, fluid, service.
If the cost of such thing is considered a "waste" because it wouldn't profitable: Then the game and company must close and dedicate their careers to something else. Thats called being a professional.

You deliver or you don't. Make up all the excuses about "reality" you want, at the end of the day, they are just that: Excuses.


If Endwalker face severe server issues: Thats SE and Yoshida's F A U L T - Thus i expect compensation for it: Free Subscription days will do.
And i hope they recive all the good flak for it if it happens because we have all SEEN it coming. Unlike ARR.

In the end that post of Yoshida seems more and more like a bad excuse -as if a excuse wasn't good enough already, there are bad ones too!- a excuse before the fault.

[Masekase_Hurricane]

Yoshi-P has spoken elaborately on this. The problems facing FFXIV cannot be solved by throwing more money or staff at it. It is highly unlikely that we are going to see XIV content increase in frequency or depth of features, not due to lack of ability or lack of funding, but rather due to lack of time. In order to maintain the steady patch cycle they have devoted themselves to keeping, they can't massively expand the amount of content per patch.

But what about the time saved from things being removed? No hildy, less dungeons, no Ultimate, consolidated Job/craft quests, no new deep dungeon. I know Covid has played a part but everything just seems lighter.

[Theodric]

Where there's a will there's a way. I think a lot of people are far to prone to buy into excuses as to why X, Y and Z supposedly cannot happen so long as that excuse has been dressed up 'nicely'.

Let's not beat around the bush - the game has decided to embrace some strange priorities at a time when it is supposedly so strained for time and resources.

It'll be interesting to see how things proceed with the development in the future. Once the recent influx of new players are all caught up with what is on offer, there's going to be greater demand for things to do once the MSQ's are complete. Furthermore, it is a reasonable expectation for each new expansion to be bigger and bolder than what came before it.

[Nothv13]

Where there's a will there's a way. I think a lot of people are far to prone to buy into excuses as to why X, Y and Z supposedly cannot happen so long as that excuse has been dressed up 'nicely'.

Let's not beat around the bush - the game has decided to embrace some strange priorities at a time when it is supposedly so strained for time and resources.

No it is just a reality. Throwing money and people at a problem doesn't mean it will be solved quicker. Nor is that really smart when it comes to business. Further decisions like expanding server resources tend to be planned out quite far ahead.

The decision to prioritize stuff other than expanding servers was made before the recent influx. This priority will not change to the immediate, though may be pushed up a bit.

To be blunt, it is unrealistic for them to just shift gears immediately like people think they can. Add in the current chip shortage caused lead times and there is no way for them to just switch priority.